The BIGGEST EVER Draft Project

This game is open to all players, this is the game which won best side game on the MMAPG last year. If you would like to join in then please read the rules, this game is very indepth but once the game gets going its very easy to follow. If you have any questions then please post them on here and either I will answer them or people that have played previously can answer them. This is an MMA strategy game, the idea of the game is to earn the most money across 15 cards, its like the Monopoly of MMA side games.

Here Goes:

1. How each round works.

Starting balance for each player is $2 million. For each card you put on there must be a minimum of 5 fights ( that will be your main card), but you can have up to 10 fights ( anything above 5 is a prelim).

I will use rankings from Fight Matrix, we will use the top 100 from HW down to FLW, I will also use the top 80 from the Woman's rankings, there will be one womans division (openweight). I will introduce 20 fighters at a time from each division, starting with the lower rankings, in the final round the top fighters will be introduced. As there are only 80 woman they won't join until rd 2.

With your $2 mill you will need to sign a minimum of 10 fighters and be able to pay there wages for the first card. If a fighter doesn't fight he doesn't get paid.

For the first round of bidding every one will send me an email where they will bid for up to 10 fighters, no one else will know who you bid for. The bids must be in multiples of $1000 ( to keep it simple) and the minimum bid is $1000. If you bid for a fighter that you think no one else will bid for you could get him for $1000, but if he is a popular fighter then you will need to estimate how much you think you will need to bid, who ever bids the most will get him, if its a draw no one gets him and once again is back on the market and everyone can bid for them. After the opening rd of bids and once we have seen who has got who, we will then do another rd of bids where each player can bid for up to 9 players depending on what you need for your card, we will then do 8, then 7 all the way down till everyone has finished or down to 1. When you bid there is no limit to having fighters from certain weight classes.

Fighters wages will stay the same through out the game.

A players wage depends on his ranking, rank 100 will be paid 10k, every rank above will be paid 10k, for eg 100 = 10k, rank 1 = 1 mill.

We will then post our card, I will then copy and paste all the cards that were posted in the order they were posted into my own word document, we will then action one card at a time (not all of them together) in the order they were posted, before I post the first card I will make sure they are within your budget, I will then post 1 card, everyone will post there results for that 1 card except for the creator of the card ( you will not be voting on your own card), the way you will post the results for each fight will be: you pick the winner, the rd they will win in, whether its sub, technical sub, ko or tko and then the technique they used to win. If you think the fight will go the distance just pick what kind of decision they win (UD, SD, MD). To clarify with sub and technical sub, sub means they tapped, technical sub means they went to sleep or a bone was broken. ko and tko, ko means they were unconscious, tko means they were not intelligently defending themselves, this is slightly different from how I ran it before but I think this will be better (it will make voting for the bonuses more fun, and make the game more in-depth). When you pick the templates, don't pick what you want to happen pick what you think will happen, it makes the game fairer.

Once everyone has picked for that card I will then update the fight card results and PM them to the card creator (not on the forum), he will then nominate 1, 2 or 3 bonuses (KO, sub and Fight OTN) and send them back to me, also if there is any draws on the votes, either on the winner of a fight, or the rd, or method or technique the card creator will have the final say on that particular section. Once that's done we will then do the next card, as its one card at a time I don't think it will be so overwhelming to make your picks and for me to update the results, we will continue this process and once I have all the fight card results and bonuses I will post all the completed card with results and bonus nominations on one post. We will then vote for the bonuses and rank the cards, I will then post the results on the bonus votes the rankings vote and then the money earnt from the votes.

After that is done I will do a financial sheet and then an updated balance so we can see how much money we all have.

For round 1 the threshold will be 1 mill, round 2, 2 mill etc, the rest of the monies will be posted before each round and will work off the threshold.

2. Rules of your fight card

You must have a minimum of 5 fights, which will be your main card, you can have a maximum of 10, any fight above 5 will be a prelim.

A Champion defending his belt will be paid double wages, some one can only challenge for a belt if they are on a 1 fight wining streak in you promotion, eg they cant fight for a belt on there promotion debut or coming off a loss. When you set up a championship match you must put (C) next to the defending champ so I know to pay him his double wages, if the belt is a vacant belt please list the belt as vacant so I know not to charge anyone double wages. If this isnt done correctly it causes me more work.

All fighters can only fight in the weight class that they are ranked in on the game rankings. Also, new for this season every fighter can also move up (not down) 1 weight class as well. So, HW fighters can only fight in HW bouts. LHW fighters can fight both HW and LHW, MW fighters can fight in both MW and LHW etc. Woman can only fight in the Womans division, there will be no male v female matches.

A champion can not fight in a non title fight in his own weight class, but he if goes up a weight class then he can fight in a non title fight or for a title in the higher weight class as long as he is on a 1 fight win steak. If a champion goes up a weight class and he is not a champion in the higher weight class he doesnt get double wages.

After Rd 1 we will all put on 1 card, after rd 2 we will put on 2 cards, right up to rd 5, 5 cards, a total of 15 cards.

3. Champions Tournament

After Rds 2 to 5 we will do a Champions Grand Prix, (there is no champs after rd1 which is why I didn't include it) we will do every weight class. Each Tourney will be seeded and we will use the rankings that we use for the game, if you don't have a champion in a weight class then you can't enter that GP. We will vote for the fights the same way, but you wont be able to vote on a fight which includes your fighter (similar to the Ultimate Tournaments side game). We will do 1 GP at a time starting with Woman and working up to HW. There will be lots of money on offer in each GP.

This is how the money will work. Every fighter who enters the GP will earn 20% of the threshold. Every time you fighter fights you pay his wages. Every time you fighter advances a round (whether he fought or not) they will earn 20% of the threshold (not in the final as they will earn the overall prize). The GP winner will earn 100% of the threshold. After the GP we will all vote on the KOTB, SOTB and FOTB (can't vote for your own fighter). For each vote received your fighter wins 10% percent of the threshold. The winner of each bonus wins 100% of the threshold.

We will then start the process again for the next GP.

4. Revamped rules around money

The new starting balance will be 2 mill and the big change will be you will no longer be allowed to go overdrawn (the only time you will be overdrawn is if a fine takes you overdrawn), that's when you bid and also when you put your card together (which is why I want to start with 2mill instead of 1mill). This is what will happen if you go over drawn:

Bidding, if your winning bids come to more money then you have in the bank then all your bids for that round of bidding will be cancelled, (so to confirm you can bid more then you have, but you can't win more then you have, in other words its best to bid within your limits) and the fighter will go to the next highest bidder, (you wont lose fighters who you have previously bid for, just the ones who you bid for in that 1 email, whether it be the round of 14 bids or 5 bids, but you wont receive a fine.

When you put your card together you must be able to pay all the fighters wages, I will check everyone's card before we pick winners and if you have over spent I will remove the lowest placed fight on the card, for every fight I have to remove you will be fined, also if you don't have a minimum of 5 fights then you will also be fined. For e.g., if I put on 6 fights and over spend by $200K, then 1 fight will be removed and I will be fined, if I am still over spent then another fight will be removed and I will be fined again, as that then drops me to 4 fights I will be fined a third time for not having 5 fights. Each fine will be the threshold, for eg rd1 = 1mill, rd2 = 2 mill right up to rd 5 = 5 mill.

Voting

Cards

Top vote earns you 100 % of the threshold, I will work out the rest depending on the amount of players we have.

Bonuses

When you nominate your own bonuses you earn money, 3 bonues 100% of threshold, 2 bonuses 50%, 1 bonus 25%. For every vote you get (you cant vote on your own bonuses) you win 10% of the threshold. Who ever gets the most votes in each section will win 100% of the threshold or a share of it if the vote is a draw.

5. Trades

You can trade fighters for either cash or other fighters. I would like to do this on the thread where we up date our rosters. So this thread will be Rosters and Trades. You can trade fighters for cash or other fighters, you can either discuss trades privately via PM or publicly on this thread (not the main game thread) but once a deal is complete both players have to post the deal on the thread for the deal to be complete, once its completed I will change the monies (if necessary) and then its up to you to update your rosters.

6. When you vote on cards and bonuses, please don't vote tactically. It makes the game better if we actually vote on how good the cards are.

7. And finally, for this game to keep moving I need players that generally log on at least once every 48 hrs. When you are due to do something on the game I will send you a PM, if 48 hrs pass and you still havent caught up then I will send you another reminder. If it goes a week and you still havent caught up then Ill have to remove you from the game. The only exception to this is if somebody is going away, but if that is the case please either PM me or post on the thread that you will be away and when you will be back and we will stop the game and then restart it when you come back.

The overall winner will be the player with the most money at the end of the game.

I would like to join in however I might slow the game down due to other commitments. So if we have 6 or more participants sign me up, if not I might step down as I don't want to be the sole reason the game is slowed down.

But I do defo wanna play!

Is Joanne Calderwood in the women's division?

trevail

2/10/13 11:10:54AM

I'll take a shot at it....

danclarke1992

2/10/13 11:49:37AM

I'm in

Rabi

2/10/13 11:51:26AM

I think so, check Fight Matrix

Poor_Franklin

2/10/13 1:30:54PM

In.

My recommendation to the new guys would be to look up the thread to the last couple of projects & see how the bidding went each round before we start this one.

Budgellism

2/10/13 1:43:52PM

Posted by Poor_Franklin

In.

My recommendation to the new guys would be to look up the thread to the last couple of projects & see how the bidding went each round before we start this one.

Agreed. It's better to know as much as possible before you start your bets or you'll be off to a rough start in the beginning.

I'm in as always

trevail

2/10/13 2:35:47PM

Posted by Budgellism

Posted by Poor_Franklin

In.

My recommendation to the new guys would be to look up the thread to the last couple of projects & see how the bidding went each round before we start this one.

Agreed. It's better to know as much as possible before you start your bets or you'll be off to a rough start in the beginning.

I'm in as always

Yeah I went back and checked out a prior round before I said yes. And to be honest....Im f'n stoked to get this started seems like a sweet game

Rabi

2/10/13 2:37:11PM

Nice to hear you say that, its great fun, I think all the new players will love it.

Rabi

2/10/13 3:22:19PM

the defending champ (hashyandy) is back in

hashyandy4

2/10/13 3:22:24PM

Im In

Rabi

2/10/13 3:37:16PM

We now reach 10, this game is going to be epic.

Bubbles

2/10/13 3:55:28PM

trevail

2/10/13 4:36:05PM

Posted by Rabi

We now reach 10, this game is going to be epic.

How many players are you aiming for?

Rabi

2/10/13 4:45:22PM

Im not setting a limit, Ill see what response I get.

Rabi

2/10/13 5:02:05PM

Acually, the most we can have is 16 players.

LateCold

2/10/13 5:26:07PM

If theres still room I'll try to nab a spot.

Rabi

2/10/13 5:28:57PM

There is still room

Rabi

2/10/13 5:29:28PM

There is 4 more spots left

LateCold

2/10/13 5:45:46PM

Actually scratch that.Probably spreading myself a little too thin and didn't read it all before asking to join the game like an idiot.It does sound great though but I probably shouldn't join. :(

Rabi

2/10/13 5:47:08PM

NP's mate, there are 5 more spots.

jae_1833

2/10/13 7:46:53PM

All right, I'm in....don't ecpect me to win or anything...I imagine this one is pretty difficult and in depth.

Budgellism

2/10/13 7:50:18PM

Just to give some insight on this game, the last one started last February and finished last week. This game takes commitment to say the least. It's worth it though.

Poor_Franklin

2/10/13 9:33:09PM

Posted by Budgellism

Just to give some insight on this game, the last one started last February and finished last week. This game takes commitment to say the least. It's worth it though.

yeah guys. this is not a game that will be finished by Summer. commitment is key.

trevail

2/11/13 8:41:44PM

This might be a dumb idea....

Could we lock the top 100 per class right now so we can start looking into who's available in the 81-100 range in preparation for Sunday? Or is it better to wait for some of the minor events this weekend that would impact the standings?

Ive already gone through and took the top 100 and written them on a word documemt so consider them locked, there is always a few fighters not on the list but some of them will make it back on for future games.